a - z of cursive handwriting using graphics as a reminder for how to make the letter. The Notebook format allows you to pause and /or add to the 'video' to highlight good form or where care needs to be taken. Click the play button at the bottom to

I wrote this short text a number of years ago and used it with a class of 10 year olds, who acted it out at assembly for the intermediate grades and then did it for each of the primary classes as well.
It was a lot of fun to watch the narrators

Animated review files for the smarttech software to allow you to go over letters a block at a time.
I arranged it so that new letters for the week are written 5 times each while letters that have been practised in previous weeks are only repeated

First letter for handwriting using smarttech software. Click the play button at the bottom to show the demonstration. If you cannot see the play button, scroll down. The rest of the alphabet and groups of letters for revision are going to be

Presentations for numbers 1 - 19 in files ten number at a time: 1 - 10, 2-11, 3-12 etc. The idea is that learners will get a feel for how much the number is worth by seeing it and saying how they know how much it is. Could be used as a 'flash and

Beginning with an idea from Montessori, this number line uses paper strips of different lengths to make a new value. Additionally, learners can see how much a number is by looking at the number line above, the paper strip in the middle and the value